Edited By: Shankhyaneel Sarkar
Last Updated: February 28, 2023, 15:24 IST
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang will go to India to attend the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (Image: Reuters)
The relationship between New Delhi and Beijing is frozen after Chinese forces tried to alter the established order in the border areas on two separate events
The Chinese overseas ministry confirmed on Tuesday that the nation’s overseas minister Qin Gang will go to India for the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on March 1-2 in New Delhi.
This might be Qin’s first go to to India as overseas minister. His predecessor Wang Yi, who now heads the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Foreign Affairs Commission, final visited India in March 2022.
Relations between each nations have been frozen after Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops tried to alter the established order by encroaching areas close to Galwan Valley and Pangong Tso lake in jap Ladakh in 2020.
India and China have held 17 high-level navy commanders’ talks to resolve the standoff.
The relationship between each nations suffered one other setback after Chinese troops tried to alter the established order and acquired a befitting response from Indian troops in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang sector in December 2022.
“The G20 should focus on prominent challenges in the global economy. China stands ready to work with all parties to ensure the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting sends a positive signal on multilateralism,” Mao Ning, an official in the Chinese overseas ministry stated, in accordance to information businesses.
His go to additionally comes days after India stated it can ship a powerful message to China, warning them not to alter the established order on the LAC.
A report by the Times of India stated that Union exterior affairs minister S Jaishankar might maintain a bilateral assembly together with his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the G20 overseas ministers’ summit.
During the assembly, India will reiterate to its neighbour that ordinary ties between each nations are doable provided that there’s peace, tranquillity and normalcy at LAC areas.
The G20 overseas ministers’ assembly might be attended by overseas ministers from world wide. Russian overseas minister Sergey Lavrov, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, UK overseas secretary James Cleverly and ministers from non-G20 member-states will attend the assembly together with representatives from multilateral organisations.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi may also tackle the assembly and converse on India’s rising affect.
Several bilateral conferences are additionally scheduled on the sidelines of the occasion.
A gathering of the overseas ministers of the Quad member-nations (Australia, Japan, India and the US) can also be anticipated to be held on the sidelines of the overseas ministers’ summit in New Delhi.
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